page_title: Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School
section_title: Academic achievement
hierarchical_section_title: Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School / Academic achievement
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking north at Creative And Performing Arts school on a mostly sunny midday.
context_page_description: Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts 6–12 is a magnet school located in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. CAPA is one of four 6th to 12th grade schools in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. It was formed from a merger between CAPA High School and Rogers CAPA Middle School.
  CAPA offers students six art majors: visual arts, literary arts, theater, instrumental music, vocal music, and dance. The theater major includes traditional theater, musical theater, and technical theater. Arts classes are taught by adjunct faculty who are working professionals in their fields.
  Admission is by portfolio or audition. The school offers academic studies including Pittsburgh Scholars Program and Centers for Advanced Study, along with activities like the National Honor Society, Tri-M Music Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, yearbook, newspaper, student council, Amnesty International, Model United Nations, the American Mathematics Competitions and North American Computational Linguistics Open competition, and ski club.
  CAPA opened in September 1979 with 35 students, housed in Baxter Elementary School in the Homewood neighborhood.
context_section_description: In 2009, U.S. News and World Report ranked 21,000 public high schools in the United States based on three factors. First, the schools were analyzed for the number of students who achieved above the state average on the reading and math tests in 2008. Then they considered how the economically disadvantaged students performed against the state average. Finally, they considered the participation rate and the performance of students in college readiness by examining Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate test data. Seventy Pennsylvania high schools earned a bronze, silver or gold rating. Fifty-three Pennsylvania high schools achieved bronze. Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts High School achieved a Silver ranking. Eight high schools in Allegheny County and two Pittsburgh School District schools achieved inclusion in the ranking. Also in 2009, students from the school performed for First Lady Michelle Obama and the spouses of other leaders attending the G-20 summit.
caption: Ninth Street
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